2007 Faculty Summer Research Abstracts

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Carolyn Becker & Jane Childers (Psychology): Verb acquisition in children and The effect of mindfulness on eating behavior.

Robert Blystone (Biology): Heat Transfer Through Skin.

Mark Brodl (Biology): Heat-Inducible RNA Binding Proteins in Barley Aleurone Layers

Mark Brodl (Biology): The Unfolded Protein Response in Barley Aleurone Layers

Paula Hertel (Psychology):  Memory Processes in Emotional Disordered People.

Allen Holder (Mathematics): Variations in the High-Flux Backbone

Jessica Hollenbeck (Chemistry): Chemical Biology & Molecular Recognition.

Laura Hunsicker-Wang (Chemistry): Copper Chaperones from Thermus thermophilus: Characterization of TtSco1.

Laura Hunsicker-Wang (Chemistry): Modulation of the [2Fe-2S] Cluster Reduction Potential in the Rieske Protein from Thermus thermophilus.

Jonathan King (Biology): The ups and downs of matrix metalloproteinase-9 secretion in kidney epithelial cells.

 Glenn Kroeger (Geosciences): Geophysical delineation of a Pleistocene paleochannel, Medina County, Texas

Glenn Kroeger (Geosciences): Geophysical evidence for salt upwelling beneath graben floors, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Jack Leifer (Engineering Science): Three-Dimensional Tracking of Position and Relative Acceleration on a Moving Surface using Videogrammetry.

Kevin Livingstone (Biology): Evolution of Specificity In a Duplicated Gene

Kelly Lyons (Biology): Use of Plant Species Functional Traits to Design Invasion Resistant Grassland Communities.

Denise Pope (Biology): Mating and communication behavior of Gulf of California fiddler crabs

David Ribble (Biology): Adaptive nature of social and mating systems in deer mice (Peromyscus) and elephant-shrews.

Luis Schettino (Psychology): Neural bases of sensorimotor control during grasping.

Jennifer Steele (Physics and Astronomy): Chemical manipulation of the plasmonic band gap of silver nanogratings.

Kathleen Surpless (Geosciences): Reconstructing Cretaceous paleogeography of the western United States through provenance analysis of the Hornbrook Formation, Oregon and California.

Benjamin Surpless (Geosciences): The structural and magmatic development of the Black Gap syncline area, West Texas

Adam Urbach (Chemistry): Molecular Recognition of Peptides by Synthetic Multivalent Receptors

Adam Urbach (Chemistry): Designed Receptors for the Molecular Recognition of Peptides